Similarities Between Aurelius And Fahrenheit 451

Marcus Aurelius and Fahrenheit 451 Marcus Aurelius was an advocator of stoicism. Stoicism is the endurance of pain or hardship without complaint or display of feelings. He believed that people should just be happy and not worry about anything bad happening to them. These beliefs are shown in the society in Fahrenheit 451. The people are also told to live in happiness with no care about any bad things happening. Beatty often mentioned that his main goal as a leader was to keep the people brain dead and happy, which he succeeded in doing by burning anything that brought unhappiness unto the people. The citizens, such as Mildred, are taught not to feel. Because they don’t know what real emotions are, they assume that everything they feel is happiness. Mildred often talks about going out and running over animals so that she can feel better. Instead over feeling sadness when they …show more content…
While Aurelius was off fighting in the war, Cassius attempted to seize the throne. Aurelius traveled back but before he could fight Cassius, Cassius was killed by his own soldiers. This is like when Montag tried to break down the government already established in his society. I can view Montag as Cassius in this situation because they both tried tear down the government and build a new one. Cassius ended up being killed by his own men, just like Montag’s ideas of rebellion were killed by his own thoughts. As Montag drifted down the river, he had time to think about his society and the change he wanted to make in the world. As he thought, Montag came to a peace with the world around him. He better understood the world he was living in and himself. While Montag was not literally killed by his attempt to make a change, his resentment towards his society and ideas of trying to take down his government were tamed and basically demolished as he drifted down the